Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann